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The Emperor's New Clothes
There is a "live" forum program that lives up to its name, and it's called "Talking Point." The pathetic facsimile organized by Channel NewsAsia (CNA) last night turned out to be a cosy fireside chat...
View ArticleA Rare Find
She was one of the odd hires made by SMRT CEO Desmond Kuek after the latter took over from Saw Phaik Hwa, an oddity in that she was not an ex-army buddy.But Ms Kalai Natarajan had solid credentials,...
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Edging Towards The Abyss
Birth rates have gone up, evidenced by the total fertility rate (TFR) growing by a 1.29 rate, compared to 1.20 in 2011. That's a healthy improvement of 7.5 percent. Before you start grinning like the...
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Silencing Of The Lamb
A simple "I stand corrected" obviously would not suffice. Still, it is sad to see someone of his senior citizen status to stoop and grovel, and eat his own words. For someone who once had the chutzpah...
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Half Empty Or Half Full
Is the glass half empty or half full? Should you break out the bottle of champagne to celebrate? The lame stream media boasts of "strong showing" due to recovery in manufacturing and expansion in...
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Exclusivity For Elites Only
Member of parliament in charge of the area, Teo Ser Luck, torpedoed the nascent formation of a Filipino sub-committee to cater exclusively for the Tagalog speaking community of Punggol Central. Teo...
View ArticleTraining For Prospective Lawyers
When Chief District Judge Tan Siong Thye passed sentence on National University of Singapore (NUS) law professor Tey Tsun Hang in June 2013, it was reported that his supporters - about 10 former...
View ArticleWet Blanket
Minister for Law K Shanmugam was first to cheer the announcement that SIM University (UniSIM) was chosen to host Singapore's third law school. Earlier in May this year, he had welcomed the...
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Going After James
Acting Minister Tan Chuan-Jin was talking about the ire stirred up by discriminatory job advertisements, in blatant breach of the Tripartite Guidelines on Fair Employment Practices, when he counselled,...
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HIdden In The Budget
The quote is from the 29 July 2013 Defence Writers Group interview of General Herbert J. "Hawk" Carlisle, Commander, Pacific Air Forces. "Hawk" was expounding on the Theater Security Plan of the United...
View ArticleNo Poverty Line Please, We Are Singaporeans
Not only is his EQ level suspect, the keechiu general may need to have his IQ reassessed. Minister for Social and Family Development Chan Chun Sing said that "Singapore is not considering having an...
View ArticleBeing Poor Is Your Own Fault
At the dinner table was a friend holding a USA passport, trying to explain the 401K system. He also compared Social Security with our CPF system, the key difference being that CPF is our own individual...
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Properly Fixed
Hours after being convicted for 6 charges of corruption and sentenced to 5 months in prison, law associate professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Tey Tsun Hang was dismissed by his...
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Monster On Two Wheels
The big "W" behind is for WankerParliamentary Secretary for Transport and Health Dr Faishal's Facebook post about a road bully of Australian origin rings a bell: "Instead of assigning blame, it is...
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Lawless In Singapore
Established in 1999, the annual Transport Gold Awards were intended to encourage higher standards of service quality in the public transport domain. This year the joint National Kindness Award –...
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A Sight For Sore Eyes
You gotta see it to believe it. Located at Jurong Street 21, and winner of the BCA Green Mark Award 2013 (Platinum), is a brand new building with the name emblazoned in big bold letters:Devan Nair...
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From Cruise Ship To Sampan
Koh Buck Song's choice of a metaphor was pretty neat. The cruise ship is just a floating version of Hotel Singapura, where foreigners are perennially welcomed to enjoy themselves on short stays while...
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The Quiet Revolution
Author and Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School Leila Ahmed was raised in Cairo in the 1940s, a time when veils and headscarves seemed irrelevant to both modern life and Islamic piety, a...
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Of Dogs And Men
A dog did this - scene from "The Green Mile"Anybody wondering about what Briton Alison McElwee has to say, or bother to hear her out? The dog was alleged to have bit her four-year-old daughter. Yet she...
View ArticleThe Profit Motive
When Lim Chong Yah bemoaned that something should be done for the low wage workers at the bottom of the feeding chain, he proposed a two prong attack:1) freeze the country’s highest salaries for three...
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